Two arrested at Samoa transient camp

Deputies arrested two men while responding to a call at a Samoa transient camp earlier this week, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office announced on Friday.

Eureka resident Lloyd Andrew Hughes, 61, was arrested Thursday afternoon on suspicion of possessing more than an ounce of methamphetamine. Arcata resident Kevin Michael Hardaway, 47, was arrested on a bench warrant.

"Deputies were dispatched to the area across from the Samoa Cookhouse, near Navy Base Road, for a welfare check regarding someone doing someone else harm. They knew there may be a transient camp in the woods when they found and arrested the two suspects," Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Lt. Wayne Hanson said on Friday.